The article raises several good points, but inexplicably includes Taiwan in a map of coronavirus in China. Might as well include North/South Korea as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I don't know how to reconcile your goals with another person's rejection of any kind of normalization of Chinese threatening of Taiwanese sovereignty. Perhaps the only option is for those unwilling to let articles get away with glossing over Taiwanese sovereignty unchallenged to get banned / downvoted to oblivion. I think that's acceptable, though sad, because I like it here.
Taiwan's exclusion from the WHO and other geo-political bullying notwithstanding, the situation regarding this outbreak is dramatically different here than it is in China.
The impacts of travel restrictions on people who have recently visited Taiwan are also dramatically different than those who have recently visited China.
And I agree the implications are far reaching as are the chilling effects and the fact of the inclusion of Taiwan on this map is more relevant than the rest of the article in many people's eyes cannot be discounted
One practical implication of grouping Taiwan with China is that Italy banned travel from Taiwan along with China, even though the situation in Taiwan is basically fine.
It's also not plausible that the author, a professional cartographer, just made a mistake about Taiwan.
It is interesting that Russia acted differently from Italy: to ban travel from China but not from Taiwan.
In the absence of additional information, all we're going to get is the same old predictable geopolitical talking points. That's what happens when there's nothing but a single bit of provocation to talk about. That sort of high-indignation, low-information discussion is off-topic on HN.